Individual Level Resources

Individual Level Resources Start Here: The Operating Logic Clear, J. (2018). Atomic habits. Avery.  The best single book on the install layer: how habits form, how to design environment and identity so good behaviours run without willpower, and the identity-based-change principle the Lifestyle Design and Continuous Learning pages lean on. Practical and uninflated. Taleb, N. […]

Mental Health Resources

Mental Health Resources Start Here: How to Think About the Mind Sapolsky, R. (2004). Why zebras don’t get ulcers (3rd ed.). Holt. The best accessible book on the physiology of chronic stress, how a response built for acute emergencies corrodes the body and mind when it never switches off. Foundational for the whole section, and […]

Death & Rebirth Resources

Death & Rebirth Resources Start Here: How Complex Societies Come Apart Tainter, J. (1988). The collapse of complex societies. Cambridge University Press.  The keystone. Societies add complexity to solve problems, complexity yields diminishing energy returns, and collapse is the rapid simplification that follows when the upkeep outruns the benefit. Dry but indispensable, and the closest […]

Hyper-Spirituality Resources

Hyper-Spirituality Resources Start Here: Spirituality Without the Supernatural Harris, S. (2014). Waking up: A guide to spirituality without religion. Simon & Schuster. The single best entry point to this section’s whole project: self-transcendence treated as a real, valuable, and investigable feature of the mind rather than evidence for any doctrine. Sharp on why the experiences […]

Med and Pharm Resources

Medical & Pharmaceutical Industries: Resources Start Here Goldacre, B. (2008). Bad science. Fourth Estate. The best single starting point for evaluating any health claim, conventional or alternative. Goldacre, a physician and epidemiologist, teaches the reader to see placebo effects, regression to the mean, bad statistics, and media distortion, and he turns the same rigorous lens […]

Environmental Factor Resources

Environmental Factor Resources Biohacker’s Handbook: Upgrade Yourself and Unleash Your Inner Potential Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body, & Defy Aging Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever Earthing: The most important health discovery ever? Healing Is Voltage: The Handbook The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of […]

Physical Health Resources

Physical Health Resources On Chronic Pain Moseley, G. L., & Butler, D. S. (2017). Explain pain supercharged; and Butler & Moseley (2013), Explain pain. Noigroup. The foundational accessible works on modern pain science, by the field’s leading communicators. The single best starting point for understanding persistent pain as an overprotective alarm rather than a damage […]

Disorder Resources

Disorder Resources Start Here: the Body as an Energy and Systems Story Sapolsky, R. (2004). Why zebras don’t get ulcers (3rd ed.). Holt. The finest accessible book on how chronic stress physiology corrodes the body, and on why so many modern diseases are diseases of a stress response that never switches off. Foundational for the […]

Death Resources

Death Resources Start Here: Facing Death Honestly Yalom, I. D. (2008). Staring at the sun: Overcoming the terror of death. Jossey-Bass. The best single entry point to the section’s whole project: a wise, humane account of how confronting mortality, rather than denying it, frees a person to live. From the dean of existential psychotherapy, grounded […]

Consciousness, Free Will, & Meaning Resources

Consciousness, Free Will, & Meaning Resources Start Here Seth, A. (2021). Being you: A new science of consciousness. Faber & Faber. The best single accessible book on the science of consciousness and the constructed self, built on the predictive-processing framework this section draws on throughout. Rigorous, beautifully written, and appropriately humble about the hard problem. […]